The Plague Rat God's corpse fell into the dust.
Ye Qiyan did not approach. Instead, he took out a Whiteforest Fruit and bit into it.
It was not over yet.
Even without a notification from the system, he knew that the malice from the Abyss would not let him go so easily.
The plague rat horde went mad. Like the Kamaitachi that had lost their god not long ago, these even more mindless rats felt utter panic and began tearing into everything around them amid the Red Tears Rain.
Some of the Apostles among them wanted to reclaim their god's remains.
But before they could get close...
A drop of black liquid tinged with red condensed from the Plague Rat God's corpse.
The moment that liquid appeared, somewhere in the Wasteland, on the unreachable far shore of the Abyss...
A pale hand picked three beings out of the countless existences lying motionless at the very bottom of [Abyss].
A dragon, a human, and a mech.
The black-red liquid spread at once.
A door leading straight to the realm of the Abyss appeared outside Blackstone Fortress in the Land of Strange Laws.
The door was so dilapidated, yet even without opening...
Its strange whispers were already infecting the entire Platform World.
Faith and madness arose in people's hearts.
They cried out!
"The Abyss endures forever!"
They prayed!
"Let the Abyss descend!"
They sang!
"The great Abyss!"
Abyss had not come. It had merely summoned a door, a door that had yet to open.
That door stood right before Ye Qiyan.
It did not open.
Or rather, Ye Qiyan was supposed to open it.
[Abyss] wanted him to make a choice.
Ye Qiyan could choose to flee.
Or open this door.
Whispers full of Bewitchment echoed in Ye Qiyan's ears.
[Flee? Or